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Appointments: Rónán Ó Muirthile

Rónán Ó Muirthile has been working in broadcasting for the past 10 years. He works as a broadcast producer with the independent production company Animo TV. Rónán was recently appointed as the new presenter of the Irish language programme Splanc which is broadcast on Newstalk every Friday night.

He hopes that he can create an identity for the show that is unique, providing a real alternative show to which people will want to listen. Rónán started out working in the media fulltime in 1999 with Raidió na Gaeltachta and then worked for three years with Irish Language programmes such as Cead Cainte and Sin.

In 2006 his documentary Flann O Brien: the Lives of Brian won the Best Documentary award at that years IFTAs. Tune into Splanc every Friday night on Newstalk between 10pm and midnight.